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October 6, 2026 Raymond Zhong, Giacomo d’Orlando and Mira Rojanasakul

Melting Swiss Glaciers Release Archaeological Treasures

Archaeologists are scouring mountain passes as artifacts from a bygone world all but tumble out of Switzerland’s shrinking ice.

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October 1, 2026 Ajit Niranjan

‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollutionSwitzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country w…

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September 2, 2026 Hiroko Tabuchi

In Nepal and Tibet, Pollution on Glaciers Could Fuel More Flood Disasters

Darkened by soot from vehicles and factories, the region’s glaciers are absorbing more heat and melting at dangerous rates.

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August 28, 2026 Jason Gulley

A Melting Glacier in Nepal Was a Time Bomb. There Are More to Come.

A geologist reflects on the disaster and explains why rapid warming will make deadly glacial floods far more common.